Beschreibung:

Lot of 39 silver gelatin prints, each approx. 15 x 18 in. (including margins), with credit to F.A. Rinehart, Omaha, in the negative, as well as copyright date, ca 1898-1899. Each subject is identified in the negative and on an accompanying 15 x 18 in. page featuring a typed identification and brief biography. A page bearing the title North American Indians is included, crediting the photographic prints within the collection to Rinehart-Marsden, Omaha. Following the passing of F.A. Rinehart in 1928, his widow Anna Rinehart and son-in-law George Marsden continued to operate the photography business. Although Rinehart's wife was forced to retire in 1952 because of health issues, Marsden operated the studio until his death in 1966. Marsden produced a unique album of portraits using 65 of Rinehart's negatives. The large format prints were bound together in a leather album, and a flyleaf identifying each image was also included. Marsden later produced a second album featuring 65 different images. (Information obtained from the Museum of Nebraska Art Website, May 12, 2015.) Although the prints and accompanying pages offered here are loose, the holes along the left edge of each page indicate that they were previously bound together, possibly as part of one of the original albums produced by Marsden, ca 1930s-1960s. The collection includes the following subjects, as identified in accompanying typed description: Swift Dog - A standing rock Sioux; Last Horse - an Ogalalla Sioux; White Whirlwind - A Cheyenne River Sioux; Touch the Cloud - Old warrior with antelope horn war bonnet; Broken Arm - An old warrior who participated in all the campaigns of his time; Hollow Horn Bear - Cheyenne River Sioux and one of the handsomest men of the race; Chief Little Wound - one of Red Cloud's lieutenants; Chief Red Sack - a Sioux; Conquering Bear - Ogalalla Sioux; Goes to War - A warrior who participated in all the campaigns in which his people engaged; Good Eagle - A Standing Rock Sioux; Lone Bear - a Sioux; Black Bear - Ogalalla Sioux who fought with Red Cloud; Ex Governor Jose Jesus Narango - Pueblo Santa Clara Indian, the father of Diego Narango; Governor Diego Narango - Santa Clara Pueblo. Shown holding a cane which was presented to the Santa Clara Indians by Lincoln in 1863. 16. Rocky Bear - Ogalalla Sioux a veteran of many wars; Chief Red Cloud - a contemporary of Sitting Bull. A crafty and treacherous Indian who was finally deposed by General Cook at the close of the campaign against Sitting Bull in 1816; Antoine Moise - Flat Head with the headdress made from long, stiff hair from back of elk; Watowosa - an Iriquois maiden; Hattie Tom - Apache; Juan Jose - a Santa Clara Pueblo; Thunder Cloud - a Blackfoot Indian who for years was Frederick Remington's model; White Buffalo - an Arapahoe; White Swan - one of Custer's chief Indian scouts who was with him when he lost his life and was found and rescued by Major Reno; Geronimo - Chiracahua Apache who led his band against the forces of the United States for nearly 18 years but was finally taken prisoner by General Miles and was a captive until his death; Sitting Bull - was a Sioux chief who was a victor in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. In 1890 he was captured and killed when resisting arrest; Chief Mountain - a great fighter whose people called him the Great Brave; Chief American Horse - greatest Indian orator of the Sioux nation; Lick - a Dakota Sioux; Eagle Feather and Papoose - a Sioux woman and her child; Chief Red Fly - Lower Brule. very aged warrior; Yellow Feather - a Maricopa; High Bear - a bluff old soldier; Little Chief Arapahoe - an old Arapahoe warrior; Clear - Lower Brule Sioux; Shot in the Eye - Ogallala Sioux who lost his eye int the Custer Battle; Crazy Bear - a Standing Rock Sioux; Eagle Thunder - an Ogallala Sioux; Chief Bill Rock - Famous medicine man who had never been off the Crow reservation. Condition: Holes along left edge of each print and descriptive page, indic